Lutris by default install wine-ge, however this flavor of wine is not good to play games, I had issues with it across multiple games and instead I always use staging version of wine which is far better and causes no issues so far, every game just works with it.
Didn’t test stable version from winehq but staging one is way better candidate than current default.
Lutris should have an option to let users download and manage wine versions other than wine-ge within Lutris (those from winehq) rather than specifying system wine.
If you are having an issue with a game and wine-ge, please provide log data as per the pinned message for the game and the details on your hardware. In the entire list of games in the lutris.net site that use wine, there are only a handful that don’t work (eg League of Legends) or won’t install (EVE Online needs 7.2-2 to install but runs on wine-ge-8-26) with the wine-ge-8-26.
Finally you can download and use whatever version of wine you want, same with DXVK, VKD3D etc - just extract the tar file for the wine version in ~/.local/share/lutris/runners/wine when lutris is not running and it will appear in your drop down. You can use protonup-qt to add them as well. The only issue is - if you have a problem with the game not running, you will need to use reddit or another site to get support - the official support is limited to the current default wine version (wine-ge-8-26) as wine-staging does break many other games, wine-staging-tkg does have a larger number of patches but IIRC had some controller issues that are fixed in the wine-ge patch set.
OK, that is expected, I might have be very lucky to have a set of games that works, there is only one that didn’t work with staging version but worked with wine-ge.
Thanks I will next time if there is no way to fix things, didn’t pay attention to pinned message.
Hey, just bumping this not to say wine-ge isn’t good enough - but because I thought it’d be more reasonable than making a new topic and referring back to here anyway.
The information outlined by OJ1 with regards to adding additional wine versions should really be added to the FAQ and/or made clearer in Lutris proper in the runner menu.
I’ve been combing for the last month to find a solution to the hoyoplay launcher not running and while I located that I needed a different wine version I hadn’t the foggiest how to get lutris to use a different version without messing with other things until stumbling upon this topic in desperation as the original title wasn’t related to my problem (adding a different wine version to ge-8-26).
Apologies if the necro annoys either Caffeine or OJ1 but its worth bumping for people who need to see it and in the event that these notes actually get added to the main site FAQ/help tips in Lutris proper o7